• DocumentCode
    694246
  • Title

    The construction of service innovation of Green Bed and Breakfast (B&B)

  • Author

    Wu, Tain-Fung ; Ming-Yu, Yang ; Chen, Shien-Liang

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Business Management, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    10-13 Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1387
  • Lastpage
    1390
  • Abstract
    The concept of Bed and Breakfast (B&B) tourism has become much popular nowadays which results in the uneven quality on the drastic competition within the industry. The innovation of B&B service has brought out several significant qualities other than technologies such as idea of hospitality, customer interface and administrating system. Environmental friendly is a firm base of the B&B concept which combines with local cultures and customs to successfully achieve a perpetual environmental prosperity in Green tourism. In this study, three B&B owners with good performance in service innovation were chosen as the cases, and with qualitative case study, the four-structure relationship of green service were deeply analyzed for all three cases. The result showed the cases with the innovative interface and service concept alternately proceeded to develop a new market and presented an interweaving structure of innovation.
  • Keywords
    Economics; Green products; Industries; Innovation management; Technological innovation; Wineries; Bed and Breakfast (B&B) owners; Green management; innovative service; operation and management;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Bangkok, Thailand
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEEM.2013.6962638
  • Filename
    6962638